Energy companies are pitching in to help repair the historic Balmorhea State Park spring-fed swimming pool in West Texas. Odessa’s Saulsbury Ventures LLC is donating $100,000 to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation’s Balmorhea park fund to meet a matching grant from Apache Corporation. The found is attempting to raise $2 million to repair the …
A month after the Oklahoma Supreme Court sided with the Oklahoma Oil and Gas Association in a water-line legal fight with Kingfisher County Commissioners, the issue remains of concern to oil and gas producers. “We are still struggling with this beast of produced water,” said attorney Tim Sowecke as he opened a Tuesday morning discussion …
A judge in Louisiana has ruled workers building an oil pipeline in southern Louisiana trespassed on land owned by three people who are opposed to the project. However, he said the work can move ahead and also awarded the three landowners only $150 each in damages and compensation. In his ruling, Judge Keith Comeaux said …
Texans are being warned the summer of 2019 could produce even greater electricity demand than what the state saw this past summer. Triple-digit temperatures strained the state’s main power grid to near capacity but the Electric Reliability Council of Texas says 2019 will be worse. That’s because the cushion between peak electricity usage and maximum …
A new report reveals that company officials were warned of faulty equipment that eventually led to the January 2018 oil rig explosion that killed five men in southeastern Oklahoma. E and E News says the warning came two days before the deadly blast and fire. The energy news letter reported that the rig superintendent had …
Oklahoma Indian tribes are among those applauding approval this week by the U.S. House of a bill to help the nation’s tribes spur more energy development. Approval of the Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act came Monday on a voice vote in the House and means tribes will have more control of their own …
A federal court hearing is set for Wednesday in Washington as four Native American tribes press their case against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has been asked by the Standing Rock, Cheyenne River,Yankton and Oglala Sioux tribes to challenge findings by the U.S. Army Corps of engineers …
In Colorado, oil and gas drilling operators might soon face stricter rules about drilling near schools. As the Denver Post recently reported, state regulators want to increase the mandatory buffer zone close to school properties. the proposal from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission would require new wells to be at least 1,000 feet …
Chaparral Energy, Inc. of Oklahoma City announced this week its credit has been expanded from $400 million to $750 million. At the same time, bankers also reduced borrowing costs to the energy company. The borrowing base went from $265 to $325 million. Chaparral also said its new administrative agent is Royal Bank of Canada. The …
Another solar energy project is coming to north Texas. 7X Energy Inc. a solar developer based in Austin, Texas announced it is partnering with CoServe Electric to construct the project in Andrews County, about an hour from Midland. Construction is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2019 and during its peak will bring …